The Language of our Spiritual Reality
As we must use our minds to access our spiritual reality, it becomes important to learn something about the language of consciousness. Though we use words, the spoken or written languages to communicate with others. Within our own minds we communicate in symbols, images and the impressions of our senses. To use an example: to most of us the odor of a skunk may be simply foul and offensive, but to those of us who have had an encounter with a skunk, one wiff of that odor becomes an instant reminder of the entire memory. One very loud noise can bring back all memories of an auto accident. We have learned that our memories are stored with sensory tags and can be brought to the surface through contacting those same tags.
Memories are not stored chronologically, in sequence or order of events. The closest we can find to sequence of events is that of emotional tagging. All events in which there is anger or frustration, for example. Another reference might be fear. The reason for this, we feel, is that the tag needs to be composed of energy. We can consciously (or subconsciously) energize fear or anger but we cannot energize a date. We do choose what energy strings we "tap" though it doesn't seem like it at times. The secret is to generate a focus for flow.
When caught up in an undesirable spate of painful emotions there is a tendency to "not" think about them. We may even make an effort to fight them. We will be assured of failure in both efforts. The harder we try to "not" think about something the more we will think of it. There is a basic corollary of life here that states "whatever" we fight we also feed. To hate something gives it the energy of life in our minds just as well as loving it.
And for any efforts to "not" think about something. The answer to why that will fail is easy. Try "not" thinking about an elephant. The harder you try the more you will think about that elephant. The only way we can "not" do something is to do something else instead.
We wonder how many times in peoples lives medication is prescribed to assist in "not" thinking about something. To say the least, there is no medicine for constructive changes in our thought processes. At best, medication can hinder the process, or even block. At best, this is like tying a knot in our garden hose instead of using a shut-off valve. Effective but so crude as to be of limited value. Our mind is like a
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